🐟 PUT, FALL, JUMP, DIVE 🐠🐬🐳
➕ IN or INTO with no difference in meaning:
☑️ Can you PUT the milk IN / INTO the fridge?
☑️ Her keys FELL IN / INTO the canal.

✳️ tunnel vision ✴️

💠 Punctuating conjunctive adverbs - When used in a simple sentence as a PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSION, the conjunctive adverb has COMMAS around it 💠
🆘 HOWEVER 🛠

🛌 - ensconce (verb) /ɪnˈskɒns/

"At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ENSCONCED on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam."
― George Orwell, Animal Farm🐷🐎 🦆🐕🐱

🥊 When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 🥊🥊🥊

✅ It has started raining. 💦
✅ It has started to rain. 💦
✅ It’s starting to rain. 💦
❌ It’s startING rainING. ⛔️🚫

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✴️💥 a lost cause 💥✴️

The past tense of ABIDE can be “abided” or “abode.”

“Abode” can also mean *a place of residence* (home):

🙋🏠 Welcome to my humble *abode*.

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📌 - 'need' - main verb vs modal auxiliary verb 📙📒📂

- 'need' as a modal verb:
- He need not do it. ✅
- He needS not do it. ☠️❌

🖌 - 'dare' - It can be treated either as a main verb or as a modal auxiliary verb. 🖌

- 'dare' as a modal verb:
- He dare not do it. ✅
- He dare not suggest that to her. ✅

- It is a good idea that Jack close all cages at night.
- It is a good idea for Jack to close all cages at night.

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🔰 RULE: 🔰
- When WHO refers to a personal pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, they), it takes the VERB that AGREES with that PRONOUN.
- It is I who AM sorry. (I am) ✔️
- It is I who is sorry. ❌
- It is YOU who ARE mistaken. (you are) ✔️
- It is you who’s mistaken. ❌
- - - - -
- It is I WHO AM responsible. (formal) ✔️
- It's ME THAT'S / WHO'S responsible. (informal) ✔️
- It is YOU WHO ARE in the wrong. (formal) ✔️
- It's YOU THAT'S in the wrong. (informal) ✔️
- - - - -
- It is I who AM to blame. ✔️
- It is I who is to blame. ❌
Less formal:
- It's ME WHO'S / WHO WAS to blame. ✔️
- It's US WHO ARE / WERE to blame. ✔️

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✳️ (give somebody/something) a new lease of/on life ✳️

✅ I HAVE a cold / a headache / a sore throat. ✅
✅ She’s got a headache. ✅

❌ I am having a cold / a headache. ❌

☑️ He IS HAVING a heart attack. ☑️

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✳️ I’m having a heart attack. ✔️

✳️ One can “have a heart condition”. ✔️

✳️ I hope I won’t have a heart attack. ✔️

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